Pride of the Clyde

A new site for Pride of the Clyde Coach Hire, featuring a cunningly designed, scratch-built css layout with a pleasing Flash header. The site allows direct and detailed booking requests to be made online, and is optimally constructed to form the starting point of an ongoing SEO campaign.

'Gorbals Boys' Presentation

A poster designed by small-media-large to celebrate the unveiling of Liz Peden's 'Gorbals Boys' sculpture was chosen to be turned into a framed item and presented to Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister at Stow College's degree awards ceremony at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall last Friday. s-m-l was happy to oblige, and Ms Sturgeon seems to have been delighted enough with the piece to mount it on the wall of her constituency office...

Saraband Site now online

A long-awaited website for this transatlantic publisher launched today. Structured around a fully-fledged content management system, the site owner can edit, create, reorder and configure all text, image, news feed and video podcast content via a secured browser interface. This enables a huge catalogue of books to be maintained and manipulated whilst remaining totally searchable by the user. Rather lovely design, too...
www.saraband.net

SEE the future

An identity and brochure for Balfour Kilpatrick's corporate responsibility programme. Clear colour-keying and succinct icons convey the three strands of the ethical and sustainability activities of one of the largest UK service organisations.


Part of the challenge was to deliver a more organic feel within a rigorous corporate identity.

The brochure, though mainly distributed via pdf, was also produced in physical form - a heavy screenprint look and blocks of the keying colours on chlorine-free, tactile board conveys a people-oriented and down-to-earth message.

Gorbals Boys after Oscar Marzaroli

A poster for Gorbals Arts Project and The Artworks Programme promoting the unveiling of a bronze sculpture group based on the iconic Glasgow image... graphically, a tower-block of typesetting rises ominously over the Gorbals horizon and this folksy urban scene of the early 1960s.

30 For a Reason

More punchy information graphics for Strathclyde Safety Camera Partnership, making a complex but important statistical point as simply as possible.

One Giant Leap

Lead image for the forthcoming National Theatre of Scotland/Wee Stories tour, embodying its themes: "the epic tale of Humankind’s struggle to get its head round the Universe, and the conflict between science and superstition." The image was created by 3D render (Daz 3d and Bryce) via a great deal of montage and retouching.

The s-m-l cutting-room floor is now littered with development work involving many different apes, Action Men and huge, footprinted moons...